Emotional support
Jan. 17th, 2002 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI still find it odd, even after all this time, to be emotionally supporting someone.
I'm pretty much defined by my logicality and befuddlement at peoples emotions (even though I have them myself), and all the understanding I have is from hard work, observation and practice, it almost never comes naturally. So to find myself, again, being the person that provides the emotional support for someone in need is puzzling to me.
Surely there are people out there that are better at this kind of thing and have more intuitive understanding of what's necessary?
Surely it's obvious that I'm not ideal for this kind of 'work'.
So why does it keep happening to me?
I'm pretty much defined by my logicality and befuddlement at peoples emotions (even though I have them myself), and all the understanding I have is from hard work, observation and practice, it almost never comes naturally. So to find myself, again, being the person that provides the emotional support for someone in need is puzzling to me.
Surely there are people out there that are better at this kind of thing and have more intuitive understanding of what's necessary?
Surely it's obvious that I'm not ideal for this kind of 'work'.
So why does it keep happening to me?
Sociopath is a nine letter word
Date: 2002-02-01 03:45 pm (UTC)It happens because you're there at the right time and the right place and because walking away from some things takes effort. :-)
Or lying in bed and pretending none of it is happening ;-)